Found a portrait on Flickr that I could reference for a painting (I'm trying to work on portraiture, I'd like to start doing it with actual friends/people). Then realised after a few minutes that I didn't feel like doing it. I kept going for a bit longer regardless, but the result is sloppy and very half-done. I find my paintings tend to look bad until the very end where they (hopefully!) come together... this definitely didn't get to that stage.
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I find that almost everything I do "tends to look bad until the very end where they (hopefully) come together". The moment where I realise that it's going to work out well is one of my favourite moments when making something. It's an elusive moment, and sometimes just starting a work feels like leap of faith, believing that that moment will eventually happen again.
Anyway, although this definitely looks half finished (eg. the eye areas really need shadows and the t-shirt is way underdone) I think it could have been quite good if you kept going with it. The lips are starting to look very interesting, and there's quite a lot of character in the face already I think.
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